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So now you have parted brass rags. It's a pity." I agreed. I am glad to say that I suppressed the desire to ask him to use his influence, if any, with Mr. Derrick to effect a reconciliation. I felt that I must play the game. To request one's rival to give one assistance in the struggle, to the end that he may be the more readily cut out, can hardly be considered cricket.
The diver having very naturally refused, Eads on the spot set himself a precedent which, during his after life, he never broke, saying that he would not ask an employee to go where he would not trust himself, he got inside his hogshead and was lowered into the river. His assistants were unused to managing diving-bells, and when they came to haul him up the derrick got out of order.
“Then we must get up a sort of derrick. There are plenty of blocks and ropes on that foremast. The difficulty will be about light spars. We shall have to go ashore and cut down two or three young trees to make our tripod with. “I think, captain, we had better make up our minds to live on board until we have got this job done.
With the courtesy of his nation, the landlord led him to an outhouse provided roughly with means of ablution, and Derrick enjoyed a thorough good wash; then, feeling quite another man, he set off towards the ranch and the house of the overseer.
The letter closed with a hint that Derrick's father found the responsibility of his titles and honours somewhat hard to bear; and Derrick knew that the old man needed him. This letter brought their visit already a long one to an end, and Derrick and Celia started for home.
It was evident to Derrick that Heyton had gone very much down since he had last seen him.
Green," said Sidcup, who had not joined in the congratulations and admiration of the rest. "All right," said Derrick. "Be with him in a moment." He went in search of Jackman, and found him, with a bottle of whisky, just outside the men's quarters. He looked up and snarled as Derrick approached him. Derrick took the bottle from him, and then looked down at him with an air of doubt and uncertainty.
Without preamble I gave out the text of my address. "I love your daughter, Phyllis, Mr. Derrick. She loves me. In fact, we are engaged." "Devilish well put, laddie," said Ukridge approvingly. The professor went under as if he had been seized with cramp.
Magnus had said they were not to be disturbed. Earlier in the afternoon, the editor had driven up to the porch and had asked Mrs. Derrick, whom he found reading a book of poems on the porch, if he could see Magnus.
Be that as it may, I was kept in ignorance until this moment; and even now, she does not tell me, but her son." He raised his eyes to Derrick with something in them that made Derrick's heart leap, the tears spring to his eyes. "Yes; you are my son," said Mr. Clendon, and he held out his hand. Derrick, moving as if in a dream, took the thin hand and grasped it in both of his.
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